posted at 6:43 pm on February 1, 2013 by Allahpundit

Via Mediaite, here’s a sign of how much work he needs to do on his basic retail political skills. He’s calling himself a “modern Republican” but if you listen to his platform — deficit reduction, entitlement reform, pro-immigration, pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage — he’s presenting himself as a fairly orthodox libertarian. (There’s nothing here about foreign policy but watch the second clip below, from late 2011, if you think I’m wrong.) If you’re running in a state as blue as Jersey, why oh why would you choose to carry the GOP’s national baggage by calling yourself a “Republican” instead of a “libertarian”? You can run in the GOP primary without chiefly identifying as a member of the party. Ron Paul’s perfected the technique. Note to Geraldo: If you think calling yourself a “modern Republican” is going to bring out the Christie voters in droves, you’re kidding yourself. His blue-state appeal, because of Sandy and because of his sheer Christie-ness, is sui generis.

Still, I think it’d be fun if he ran and won the primary, if only because it’d be the ultimate stress test of whether conservatives will unite behind a disfavored nominee in the interest of knocking off a Democrat. They united behind McCain, they united behind Romney. Will they unite behind a guy prone to saying things like … this?

The Republican Party is more than the “cliché” of recent years, Rivera said. He then blasted the “nativist” wing of the GOP for abandoning President George W. Bush on comprehensive immigration reform.

“They made the brown skin people and other immigrants the enemy,” he said.

In fairness to Geraldo, I’m sure McCain and Graham enthusiastically agree, even if they’re not stupid enough to say so. If he can’t get Jersey conservatives behind him, i.e. if he’s destined to face a third-party tea-party candidate who’ll siphon off ~10 percent of the vote in the general election, then what’s the point? He’s doomed. Exit question: Next up in media warfare — Geraldo versus Touré?

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Still, I think it’d be fun if he ran and won the primary, if only because it’d be the ultimate stress test of whether conservatives will unite behind a disfavored nominee in the interest of knocking off a Democrat. They united behind McCain, they united behind Romney

Still, I think it’d be fun if he ran and won the primary, if only because it’d be the ultimate stress test of whether conservatives will unite behind a disfavored nominee in the interest of knocking off a Democrat. They united behind McCain, they united behind Romney

Still, I think it’d be fun if he ran and won the primary, if only because it’d be the ultimate stress test of whether conservatives will unite behind a disfavored nominee in the interest of knocking off a Democrat. They united behind McCain, they united behind Romney

Romney, the un-conservative, loser POS was my last GOP vote. That was it – not that I vote in Jersey, but I bet there are more than a few traditional GOP voters in Jersey who feel the same way. The extortion for our votes is over since the GOP has done nothing to even try to defend the most fundamental and important aspects of America.

I look forward to an entertaining campaign, but if he’s up against Booker, I think I’d rather have Senator Booker than Senator Geraldo. Scratch that. Senator Geraldo, Governor Booker. In this theory, Booker runs in the 2017 Governor’s race after Christie is term limited.

It was Romney’s job to give people like Stoic Patriot a reason to vote for him.

Romney failed.

He failed because he was the wrong choice. And if you didn’t see Romney’s impending failure coming from oh about 2011, you weren’t paying attention.

18-1 on February 1, 2013 at 9:36 PM

There is no right choice for POTUS on the GOP side for anyone.
Folks like SP & perhaps you, fail to realize that letting someone in like Obama was far worse than anything Mitt could ever have done.
Bcs let’s be honest, Mitt is a good man & has good morals. And he wouldn’t have been perfect & he isn’t Reagan (& Reagan of course wasn’t always great either), but he would have made America a better place than Obama could have.
And that is why America is a toilet bowl.
You folks who desire the exact perfect candidate lose sight of the war.
Romney was no McCain or Dole etc.
He is better than that.
But whatevs.
Enjoy the destruction.
Watch our country burn & feel good in your heart that your nonvoting is somehow saying something.

I really have to wonder sometimes HOW people like Geraldo somehow manage to completely avoid reality. I have to assume he lives in this very insular little world where people tell him how great he is and what a terrific idea it would be for him to run for office. Meanwhile, back in the REAL world, he’s a hypocrite with no visible principles. You’d think somebody in his life would care enough about the guy to sit him down and tell him, “hey, you’re kind of a jerk and nobody respects you, so you’ve got about as much chance of being elected by Republicans as Barack Obama”, but apparently the guy doesn’t have any friends.

Geraldo is really enjoying his intentional derision of the Right. He’s the tiny creep who jumps forth, after two bigger creeps have already pummeled whoever they’re bullying, and goes, “so, there, see what I can do to you?”

He was engaged in a great big ole smile on FOX earlier tonight when he crowed about his “crossed fingers…that I’m penetrating it with” as to this idea of running as a Republican for public office.

And boyoboyo, did Geraldo ever think he was clever with his clearly disgusting crap.